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Ltryptophan's avatar

What if there was/is a dna test that tells you when the last time someone inbred in your genetic line?

Asked by Ltryptophan (12091points) September 15th, 2017 from iPhone

Maybe they could test you and immediately say, 88% chance your parents are siblings. Or, looking at your DNA it seems that somewhere around 230 years back your grandpa was also the father.

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zenvelo's avatar

And why would you want to know that? I don’t see how that information helps anyone except for someone trying to figure out the origin of an obscure disease/mutation.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

This exists already, GEDmatch can run an analysis using raw data and tell you if your parents are related. No, my parents were not related
Far back I don’t think there is a way to tell or even that it really makes any difference.

Ltryptophan's avatar

@zenvelo someone posted a pic of some hillbillys, and I wonder how far back if ever my bloodline looked like these inbred meth heads….

filmfann's avatar

My great grandmother married her father’s cousin. I know this through genealogical research, and through my great grandmother, who did her best to cover it up.
We did a DNA test, and there was no indication that something like this was detected.
Looking at the science, I doubt this could be done.

Patty_Melt's avatar

My response is in the whiny room.

Dr_Lawrence's avatar

You will need to have the DNA of many family members analyzed to get a useful answer to this question. I used to work in medical genetics.

JLeslie's avatar

I wouldn’t care at all if back in my lineage cousins made an ancestor of mine. Friends of mine are married first cousins. I would hate to know a father raped his daughter and that resulted in a pregnancy, but if it’s 8 generations back I can’t do anything about it.

tedibear's avatar

I would only have to go back to my paternal grandparents. They were second cousins (or something like that) and didn’t know it until after they had been married a few years.

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